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The New Ukraine Is Run by Rogues, Sexpots, Warlords, Lunatics and Oligarchs
New York Observer ^
| 01/14/15
| Mikhail Klikushin
Posted on 01/14/2015 7:32:49 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff
The western media has always had a love affair with Soviet/Russian style politics. From Walter Duranty until today Newspapers, Television, Movies, and everyone has given the Russian/Soviet empire a pass.
Compare this to the way that NAZIs are treated in most movies. I agree that the NAZIs were abhorrent and worthy of their treatment, but Russian/Soviet Communism was as bad or worse.
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posted on
01/14/2015 10:22:59 AM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Fightin Whitey
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! That ain’t sexpots. That’s smallpox!
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posted on
01/14/2015 11:11:12 AM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: The_Reader_David
Funny, that the Russians had to build a wall to keep the Georgians, Latvians, and Lithuanians in.
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posted on
01/14/2015 11:19:53 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: tumblindice
To: McGruff
The New Ukraine Is Run by Rogues, Sexpots, Warlords, Lunatics and Oligarchs.....and Methodists.
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posted on
01/14/2015 3:42:09 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
01/14/2015 3:42:18 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
01/14/2015 3:43:11 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
I wondered when you’d show up. ;)
To: Jan_Sobieski
Ukraine did not exist as state before 1920th and there was no such ethnicity as Ukrainian. Bolsheviks created Ukraine including in it Small Russia, New Russia and other territories of former Russian empire. They forced populace of new republic to designate their ethnicity as Ukrainian under the threat of firing from jobs. Stalin joined to Soviet Ukraine piece of land named Western Ukraine. Slavic ethnic group Ruthenians of this territory were addressed as Western Ukrainians. They purged Western Ukraine from Poles and Jews during WWII.
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posted on
01/14/2015 8:59:23 PM PST
by
Cossak
To: Cossak
Wouldn’t the Cossack Hetmanate in the 1500s be considered a direct ancestor of today’s Ukraine?
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posted on
01/15/2015 11:49:52 AM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: McGruff
and that is different from Russia, how??
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posted on
01/15/2015 11:51:24 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: The_Reader_David
When did Ukraine invade Russia??
That is my question.
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posted on
01/15/2015 11:52:31 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: The_Reader_David
But hey, let's not obscure the anti-Russian sentiment underlying Ukranian nationalism with facts. You find it amazing that they would dislike their invaders and occupiers??
Let's talk about the Russian nationalism that sees all neighboring countries as stolen Russian land and makes anti-Americanism a key to nationalism.
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posted on
01/15/2015 11:54:21 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: McGruff
"The New Ukraine Is Run by Rogues, Sexpots, Warlords, Lunatics and Oligarchs" Wait, how did the U.S. Congress find enough time to plunder err I mean run both countries?
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posted on
01/15/2015 11:55:55 AM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
Moscow Police Arrest Activist for Playing Ukraine National Anthem in Her Car!She is protesting for the release of Nadiya Sevchenko, a Ukrainian pilot who was driving her own car away from the battlefield into Russia (which was pretending to be neutral).
Today is day 33/34 of Nadiya's hunger strike.
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posted on
01/15/2015 12:21:04 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Jan_Sobieski
I don’t blame anyone for wanting their own country, or to be free (though I’m dubious about folks blithely assuming that kow-towing to Brussels it a route to freedom), I just want the record correct. The horrors inflicted on the Ukraine during the Soviet era were inflicted by a regime alien to the Russian nation and were largely also inflicted on Russia by the same regime.
Back in the ‘80’s when the YAF chapters at Penn and Swarthmore mounted a protest against the Soviet ambassador giving a speech at Swarthmore College, among other banners we unfurled a list of captive countries. Russia was at the top of the list, followed by Ukraine and the rest of the “union republics” of the Soviet Union, then the satellites in Eastern Europe, followed by the rest of the Communist countries.
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posted on
01/17/2015 10:30:20 AM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
To: Jan_Sobieski
If only relatively small part of today’s Ukraine. More recent ancestors are Soviet Ukrainian Republic and several regions of Russian Empire.
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posted on
01/18/2015 2:49:36 AM PST
by
Cossak
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